rat patrol

Well here’s a story that sounds made-up. According to “experts”, a 1,565 ton cruise liner carrying disease-ridden rats is out there, somewhere, and could very well be headed for Britain.

The ship, which went missing a year ago, has presumably been drifting across the north Atlantic ever since. The Independent‘s account of what happened next is based in some true facts, and then fluffed up with a lot of conjecture.